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Discuss critically the manner in which quantitative revolution provided the methodological foundation for models and modeling in geography.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

A model in geography is a deliberate, controlled simplification of reality that retains only those variables held to be causally significant and discards the rest — an idealised representation, a structured approximation, a selective picture of the world rather than a miniature copy of it.

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  • What a Model Is: Simplification as a Methodological Instrument
  • The Philosophical Foundation: Positivism and the Overthrow of the Unique
  • The Technical Foundations: Geometry, Statistics and the Computer
  • Geometry — a formal language for space
  • Statistics — the step from analogy to science
  • Computation — from static to predictive models
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